Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

A friend is known when needed.

Proverb, Arabian

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred --that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Jefferson, Thomas

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Twain, Mark

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

Friendship is a comforting smile, A familiar voice that warms the heart, and the freedom to be the person God intended.

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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Verily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from a friend.

Theocritus

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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Kennedy, Eugene

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.

Scott, Sir Walter

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My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Iacocca, Lee

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Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

Sallust

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Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Ruskin, John

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Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.

Uris, Leon

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Delille, Jacques

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Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Proverb, Nigerian

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A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

Proverb, Jewish

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

Pepys, Samuel

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Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Hazlitt, William

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Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Bible

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

Bach, Richard

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Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

Seneca

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The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Notebook

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Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

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Win hearts, and you have hands and purses.

Burleigh, Lord

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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

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Friends show their love in times of trouble...

Euripides

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How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

Rothschild, William E.

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Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Euripides

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Friend -- One who knows all about you and likes you just the same

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A good friend is my nearest relation.

Fuller, Thomas

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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Ziglar, Zig

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.

Paterson, Samuel